Lake Delivers Christmas Boxes in Colombia

Vice President of Spiritual Development Todd Lake visited Colombia last week with Samaritan’s Purse to deliver Operation Christmas Child boxes and learn about the nonprofit organization’s mission work abroad.

Through a University-wide service project last fall, faculty, staff and students filled 518 Operation Christmas Child boxes with toys, personal hygiene items, socks and school supplies and raised some $300 to ship them to help demonstrate God’s love to orphans around the world.

“It’s so much more than poor children getting a Christmas box,” Lake said. Samaritan’s Purse uses the boxes as an entry way to recruit youth for discipleship programs through local churches.